Stress and Human Body System Reaction – A Review

An attempt has been made in this paper to review the acute and chronic impacts of stress on human body. When the body is under stress, the stressful conditions largely give rise to certain remarkable changes in the human organ systems that may exhibit strange behavior and psychological disorders. Body reaction to stress is predictable and can be analyzed and relaxation strategies exist to mitigate such impacts. The Stress may give signals to human physiological systems to produce the hormones which may give energy to run from danger but if it prolonged, it may give rise to irreversible effect on human body leading to serious disorders. In India, no legal remedy is available to managerial stress leading to disastrous conditions. It is essential that some legal framework is designed to reduce if not prevent the casualties due to stress at the work place in India.